Fine. I really didn't credit that you suspected me of lying, but am glad to have that confirmed.
What I said is that Bush knowingly appointed a gay man as an ambassador. A gay man with dazzling qualifications, incidentally. I certainly did NOT "state so confidently that this was an issue for Bush...."! In fact, the opposite was true! This man was a brilliant, highly qualified career Foreign Service Officer, and his known homosexuality was, appropriately, NOT an issue for Bush!
From that does not come that it is appropriate for me to discuss his sexuality here, and identify him by it. He may do it, I may not. (I don't know where he is in his career right now, but if I were he, and knew of George Junior's statement to the Christian conservatives as reported by them, and knew that he may be the next president, and saw how many there are out there like you and true dog on this issue, I would start talking about sports a lot, and being seen with women on my arm. The way it used to be for so many homosexuals. And still is, I'm sure. Although it isn't as nightmarish as it was when my poor, guilty, mortified lesbian aunt was forced into a life of loneliness and suffering.)
You say that others "asked for more information on a factual assertion from you without getting much...."
I recall JLA expressing an interest, but also acknowledging that he understood my desire to respect the individual's privacy.
I believe you are the only one who has expressed any significant interest in the details, Neo. Although I would prefer not to give provide personal details about myself that will be required, you may PM me with the request and an undertaking to keep all of the information I give you in confidence, and I will provide what you are interested to hear, including a link to the announcement of his appointment, his resume, and an explanation of how I came to meet him, and to know many, many of his colleagues and associates, and thus to know of his homosexuality (though he was distinctly effeminate in manner, and even had I had no confirmation, I would have assumed that he was gay in any case) and to know that it was known and acknowledged and accepted by everyone with whom he worked. Brilliance, competence and decency tend to be respected.
As I have said twice before, people judge others as individuals, once they have met them, as a rule, is my experience.
I do have many interesting Foreign Service Officer stories, though! Amazing ones, all about events that took place in the very country to which the man I'm referring to was assigned. They are about heterosexuals, though, so may be of little interest. There's the DCM (Deputy Chief of Mission; effectually a "vice-ambassador") who murdered his wife and children and disappeared. And there was the little black room found off the basement of the USIS (US Information Service) head. It contained many interesting... implements, and, uh, illustrations. And there was the disturbed Officer who took a baseball bat and broke the car windows in the Embassy parking lot in despair over her love affair with the married Communications Officer. Shortly after, the poor woman committed suicide. There was the pregnant wife of the head of one agency who fell deeply in love with the married CIA guy, but she couldn't leave her husband and two children so they could be together because his wife threatened to kill herself and their children...
Neo, this barely touches the surface.
Oh, I forgot about the married Ambassador who visited a female Peace Corps Volunteer in a neighboring country. At night, in her mud hut. This, to be sure, was simply something I was told by a person in a position to know; it is, unlike the other items, therefore not history so much as gossip. Credible gossip.
But... all heterosexual.
And you doubt Bush would appoint a stable, cultured, dignified, competent gay man, a career Foreign Service Officer with a brilliant record of service who was respected by all with whom he worked?
That is odd, to me.
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